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| Directive | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Project account for resource accounting and billing purposes. | default project account for the user |
| A descriptive name of the job | Script name |
--chdir=... | Working directory of the job. The output and error files can be defined relative to this directory | submitting directory |
| Path to the file where standard output is redirected. Special placeholders for job id (%j) and the execution node (%N) | slurm-%j.out |
| Path to the file where standard error is redirected. Special placeholders for job id (%j) and the execution node (%N) | output value |
| Quality of Service (or queue) where the job is to be submitted. Check the available queues for the platform. | nf or ef |
| Wall clock limit of the job. Note that this is not cpu time limit The format can be: m, m:s, h:m:s, d-h, d-h:m or d-h:m:s | qos default time limit |
--mail-type=<type> | Notify user by email when certain event types occur. Valid values are: BEGIN, END, FAIL, REQUEUE and ALL | disabled |
--mail-user=<email> | email address to send the email | submitting user |
Directives for resource
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allocation
| Directive | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Allocate resources for the specified number of parallel tasks. Note that a job requesting more than one must be submitted to a parallel queue. There might not be any parallel queue configured on the cluster | 1 |
| Allocate <nodes> number of nodes to the job | 1 |
| Allocate <threads> number of cpus for every task. Use for threaded applications. | 1 |
| Allocate a maximum of <tasks> tasks on every node. | node capacity |
| Allocate <threads> threads on every core (HyperThreading) | core thread capacity |
| Use or not hyperthreaded cores and define the binding accordingly. | not defined |
| Allocate <mem> memory for on each taskcore thread capacitynode | 8 GB for serial and fractional jobs(*i, *f and *l QoS), 240 for parallel jobs (*p QoS) |
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See man sbatch or https://slurm.schedmd.com/sbatch.html for the complete list of directives and their options. |
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